Dispensing cover for containers



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w. BARTLETT DISPENSING COVER FOR CONTAINERS Filed Nov. 11. 1924 l a'teited '2, 19.26%.

UlTE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

"WILLARD BARTLETT, 0171 PARIS, FRANCE, ASSIGN'QR T0 AMERICAN CH'LOLECOMPANY,

DISIPEN 311? G COVER Application filed November The object of theinvention is to provide a disgensing cover for tins and othercontainers, the device being particularly adapted for the dispensing ofsmall units or POWQQZU.

An applicationot' the invention is to serve as a cover for small tins ofpastilles and a primary object of the invention is the provision of a.device or the kind which shall have maximum simplicity and low cost, toenable it to be used where the price for the tin of pastilles is verylow a d will warrant, in some cases, only a fraction of a cent in thecostof the tin cover 111d dispensing device.

The invention will be understood by retorence to the accompanyingdrawings, in which Figure l i a plan view of the rover from the fronttrace thereof,

Figure 2 is a plan view of the cover from the rear face thereof, and

Figure 3 is a plan view oi the formed lanlr tor the closure member.

By reference to the drawings it will be seen that the cover 3 for thetin or other container is provided with a discharge opening 1 and anarcuate slot 2.

In the rear of the cover 8 is disposed the closure member -l-, thelatter member being provided with a finger 8, an extension of whichprojects through slot Closure member is provided with a rear extension 5which is cut to form projecting ears 6. l lars (3, in assembling thedevice, are bent upwardly, and pass through a round opening 9 formed inthe cover 3. The cars are then bent downwardly upon the outer face ofthe cover so as to hold the closure against displacement whilepern'iitting it to swing about opening 9 as an axis.

In practice, closure member 4 may be A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

FOR CONTAINERS.

1'1, 1924. Serial No. 749,152.

formed of light gauge tin so that the ears 6 and finger piece 8 mayreadily be bent upward by hand, if desired, and the closure ap plied tothe tin cover 3 by unskilled, and, therefore, inexpensive labor.

It is to be noted that the only machinery required in the constructionof the device is a cutting die for the closure blank and a cutting diefor torn'iing the two round openlugs and the arcuate opening in thecover. ltivetting operations are dispensed with and it is this itemwhich is one of the principal reasons for the low cost of the device.

It will be understood that the discharge opening may be of any desiredform and that the ears and hole of the pivot device may be reversed inposition, in that the hole may be formed in the closure member and theears on the cover, if desired, such modifications being within thespirit of the invention.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is as follows Adispensing cover comprising a flat plate formed with an arcuate opening,a dispensing opening adjacent thereto and a pivot opening adjacent thedispensing opening, a substantially flat tan-shaped plate having nearits end of lesser widtl'i transversely projeeting ears, projectedthrough the pivot opening, and at the front end a forwardly projectingear passing through the arcuate opening, the intermediate por ion of theplate being adapted to normally cover the dispensing opening and toexpose said opening when the plate is moved laterally a predetermineddistance.

in testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

WILLARD BARTLETT.

